Friday, December 16, 2016

Jimmy e-mailed me many times pleading for me to donate again to Wiki. Wiki is compromised, infiltrated by underemployed SJWs w/ too much free time. Wiki is losing a donor. Out with Wiki. In with Infogalactic. Migrate over if you're right of Karl Marx.

If you're using Infogalactic to replace Wikipedia - which you can now do as your default search engine in Brave, or by typing :i in the URL bar - you've probably noticed that it is considerably faster than it was a week ago. Click a few times on the Random Page link to see the initial improvements in page load times.

We're still working on the Search and Image Fetch database functions; the latter is the primary culprit with regards to the persistent slowness of both, but we have made considerable progress there as well and expect to have those speedups implemented within a week. I'll be sending out an update to both the Burn Unit and the Phase Two donors with an explanation of what IG's Techstars have done, what they are doing, and what they'll be working on next, as soon as this first round of speedups are in place. Please note that as a general rule, I try to avoid unnecessary communiques that contain no actual information.

If you haven't joined the Burn Unit or jumped the donor ship from Wiki to IG yet, I would encourage you to do so now for two reasons. First, the Alt-Tech revolution is the only way out of being permanently walled in by the converged technology giants, and second, the planetary knowledge core is only going to keep getting better from here.

As you may have heard, Apple is still playing politics with Gab, attempting to keep the Gab app out of the Apple Store on spurious and hypocritical grounds, and Twitter has banned API-related access by Gab, which tells you that Big Tech is already alarmed by the rapid rise of the Alt-Tech. We not only can win, we will win, but we do need those who are on our side to support us rather than continue to support those who hate them.

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And meanwhile, cucks and libertarians will continue to play the useful by saying "their property, their call" in an age where it is ruinous for a mom and pop shop to turn away the wrong customers. But but but taking away their freedom won't make us freer. You're right! Not in the short term. The cure to Socialism isn't to persuade the nomenklatura of the wrongness of the system, it is to ensure that they get a taste of the misery good and hard until they agree to stop it.

Everyone, when you're on Gab - and need some relevant info to support your post; grab a page from Infogalactic to get the word out & keep it in front of the community. Alt-Tech is mandatory for the survival of Western Civ & YOU are an important part if you choose to act.

How does the "dynamic fork" concept work? A lot of recent additions to Wikipedia (new movies, recent political events, etc.) are missing from Infogalactic. Is this a matter of getting more editors on board as they jump ship from Wikipedia?

I ask because I'm profoundly lazy and I tend to use Wikipedia to look up random pop culture stuff. I had to disable the InfoSextant extension because I was getting too many outdated pages.

How does the "dynamic fork" concept work? A lot of recent additions to Wikipedia (new movies, recent political events, etc.) are missing from Infogalactic. Is this a matter of getting more editors on board as they jump ship from Wikipedia?

It's all automated. We're not actively trying to recruit new editors yet, and the new content issue will be resolved as soon as we implement the dynamic forking. That's the next thing to come after this first round of speedups.

In some ways, unfortunately not visible to the user, the performance is considerably better than Wikipedia's. What they're doing through a lot of very expensive caching, we're doing through efficient database management. This won't help the user experience, but it allows us to provide similar performance at considerably less expense.

I want to use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, can I make Brave replace the Wikipedia search results with Infogalactic ones?

Write to the DuckDuckGo developers and recommend that they offer Infogalactic results as an option somehow. Point out to them that Infogalactic's ethos of open access to information that's not being monitored or filtered according to the opinions of a small group of editors matches up well with DDG's goals.

"Alt-Tech to Ground Control! Ground Control, come in!""Ground Control. Reading you five by five, Alt-Tech. Go ahead.""Taking heavy flak. Locked out, laughed at, and slowed down! News is getting worse by the minute!""Then you are over the target for sure, Alt-Tech. Bombs away, and good hunting!"

I am doing my part to help Gab grow but it needs to somehow broaden the audience because everyone on there is so obviously alt-right. Try making more normal profiles so it appeals to more people is my suggestion otherwise it will just be an alt-right haven. I also am remaining on Twitter, no reason to cut off that potential audience. I think the effort will be more effective if people are a little less obvious in my humble opinion, less is more. When you speak more people will take notice if you are not 100% in political mode all of the time.

Stop cucking. We don't need less Alt-Right, we need more of it. You clearly don't understand politics or human psychology. Playing to the uncommitted middle is exactly how conservatives lost to the Left in the first place.

Write to the DuckDuckGo developers and recommend that they offer Infogalactic results as an option somehow. Point out to them that Infogalactic's ethos of open access to information that's not being monitored or filtered according to the opinions of a small group of editors matches up well with DDG's goals.

Presumably the database efficiency will allow future growth without having to constantly re-tune and patch for performance. I imagine Wiki spends a lot of resources on that kind of thing if they rely on caching.

Speaking of converged technology giants, while we're working to move reference info from Wikipedia to Infogalactic an opportunity has immediately presented itself to monkeywrench one of the major players in totalitarian SJW.

I'm speaking of Facebook and their new "fake news" policing.

Well, as it turns out, FB is crowdsourcing its effort among its own users.

"...Facebook says it's working with fact-checking groups to identify bogus stories — and to warn users if a story they're trying to share has been reported as fake.

Facebook also says it will let users report a possible hoax by clicking the upper right hand corner of a post and choosing one of four reasons they want to flag it — from "It's spam" to "It's a fake news story.""

The four choices are

It's annoying or not interesting

I think it shouldn't be on Facebook

It's spam

It's a fake news story

The way it works as I understand it is that those articles tagged "It's a fake news story" are forwarded to Facebook's internal Minitrue where it's then "fact checked".

But of course articles selected for "fact checking" aren't fact checked before the fact. Their first line selection is up to the Facebook user - who can tag any article they choose "It's a fake news story", thus forwarding it to the growing load to be officially "fact checked".

Clearly, Facebook anticipates this load to be both manageable and composed solely of Alex Jones offerings. What a mess if something else turned out to be the case.

Certainly, Facebook could retaliate and send a message by stomping on the accounts of users who forwarded articles Facebook unilaterally determined to be "clearly not fake news", like NYT or WaPo editorials. In the meantime, though, imagine the fun seeing Facebook "fact checkers" forced to behave like Lucy on the ever-faster chocolate factory assembly line.

In some ways, unfortunately not visible to the user, the performance is considerably better than Wikipedia's. What they're doing through a lot of very expensive caching, we're doing through efficient database management. This won't help the user experience, but it allows us to provide similar performance at considerably less expense.

This is also why they will fail. Throwing money at a tech problem is a monkey's idea of a solution.

They're still begging for money, even though (1) they've blown through their fundraising goal for the month halfway through, (2) Jimmy Wales promised the begging would end if the goal was met early, (3) the Wikimedia Foundation is sitting on nearly $100 million in assets already and (4) has an annual hosting bill of only $2 million, and (5) the people who provide Wikipedia's content aren't getting paid for it. Where's all that money going? Does the Wikimedia Foundation really need to have multiple decades' worth of expenses covered?

(One more thing: I had to post this through Internet Explorer. Neither Chrome nor Brave are working right to post here. I have a bunch of add-ons in Chrome that might keep it from working, but Brave is pretty much as-shipped...it doesn't even have add-ons available.)

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